Is there any reason to get higher than 100% critical strike chance?

I'm looking at the passive skill tree, trying to plan a character out, and there are certainly more nodes present for increasing crit chance than are needed if crit chance modifiers stack additively (ie 25%+45% = 70%). Or do they stack multiplicatively? (25%*45% = 59%)

Alternatively, is there a stat for critical resistance that would allows monsters to ignore however much of your critical chance?

Thanks for the insight!
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gejsiv wrote:
I'm looking at the passive skill tree, trying to plan a character out, and there are certainly more nodes present for increasing crit chance than are needed if crit chance modifiers stack additively (ie 25%+45% = 70%). Or do they stack multiplicatively? (25%*45% = 59%)

Alternatively, is there a stat for critical resistance that would allows monsters to ignore however much of your critical chance?

Thanks for the insight!


The crit chance works like this.
All the crit nodes give % increases to your current % chance.

So if you have 5% crit chance on a weapon, a node that gives +70% critical strike means you'll have:

5% X 1,70 = 8,5%


Any additional +crit chance will increase your base crit chance further, not the 8,5%.
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Last edited by Tagek#6585 on Apr 2, 2012, 11:15:56 AM
I think they stack additively, but it is not that simple. Each % of crit chance you spec for applies to the crit chance of your weapons. This is usually ~5% in my experience, so feel free to spec up to 2000% crit.
Last edited by Reashu#5408 on Apr 2, 2012, 11:17:56 AM
Yes there is, since it's your weapons critical strike chance that is increased, not some innate stat. For example, if your weapon has a 5% crit chance, then a 100% passive stat increase will will double it to 10%, not 105%.

Hope that clears it:)

EDIT: Damn, way too slow.
Last edited by Harum#2309 on Apr 2, 2012, 11:18:54 AM

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